From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way. Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:31:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgvd4gby.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87pmwgdiyj.fsf@zoho.eu> <878s33dvd4.fsf@zoho.eu> <874kdl5vig.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22305"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ob+0x2HBqKHCLkt8AAhI2xQMs6E= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 26 02:31:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lwwEg-0005bn-2L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:31:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47836 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lwwEe-0004RC-7N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lwwEH-0004R4-2K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lwwEF-0007iv-G7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lwwED-00058a-IG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:31:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131235 Archived-At: >> Actually, ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init/erc/erc-iterate.el is >> completely _platform independent_ when used in Emacs. >> Emacs takes care of platform differences / >> oddities automatically. >> >> Automatically, that is, provided code uses Elisp file-name >> functions (or the predefined commands that use them)... > > But why don't put that in the functions where something can > go wrong because they are the ones that should be > responsible for that, using string functions on a string > doesn't imply any danger whatsoever so if one wants to be > safe that doesn't make it any more safe, because it is > already safe. Let's take a more practical approach, you mention file-name, what I can see there are these function, some of them what they do one can understand, assume, or guess, but I don't understand 100% what one is supposed to do, send the path as one fancies it to a function and get the same thing back, only on some other system it is changed to work there? If so, what function is that? I still don't understand why this is done manually but it is just a detail, I'll enclose it if that's how it is supposed to look... file-name-absolute-p file-name-all-completions file-name-as-directory file-name-base file-name-case-insensitive-p file-name-completion file-name-directory file-name-extension file-name-non-special file-name-nondirectory file-name-quote file-name-quoted-p file-name-sans-extension file-name-sans-versions file-name-shadow-mode file-name-unquote -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal